thanks for your suggestion, zach!
i am delighted to hear that issuing two requests is not despised.
nevertheless, just for the sake of fully understanding map/reduce in couchdb, i read your reply as although it might be a mess of code and counter-intuitive it is possible and it would work… is that correct?
best regards,
tobi
On 06.01.2012, at 18:57, Zachary Zolton wrote:
> Tobi,
>
> You probably can somehow cram all that stuff together via the reduce
> function, but you miss out on being able to use the built in _count
> reduction and it'll take a mess of code.
>
> I think you're better off trying to retrieve this information in two
> queries: first query for the names and IDs of the polls and then do a
> second query for the count of choices of those poll IDs.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zach